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| tommy:
I reformated the disk, the PC is even installing windows slowy with my windows cd. I never had problems with windows running fine on a fresh install before, maybe something my bad power supply caused? Only thing that is running high now is my explorer.exe Any other ideas from this new info? Thanks |
| richms:
Thermal throttling can cause behaviour like this to happen. See if you can get anything to check cpu temperature for your motherboard |
| M3talhead:
--- Quote from: richms on January 28, 2007, 11:48:04 pm ---Thermal throttling can cause behaviour like this to happen. See if you can get anything to check cpu temperature for your motherboard --- End quote --- And building on that, when was the last time you cleaned the fans or heatsinks? Dust caked over a motherboard has a blanketing effect, trapping heat and rasing the temp of every component in the chassis. |
| danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 28, 2007, 12:09:21 pm --- If you choose that, before you do the windows install, boot with a dos floppy --- End quote --- whats a floppy? |
| shmokes:
You can kill partitions and create/format new ones from within the XP install program (which is running on DOS anyway). |
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